The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for those too ravaged by the Great War to cope with the society that first condemned them to battle and now shuns them.
A chance visit to a circus brings about a mystery in the form of a fairylike child whose guardians claim she was brought up by dingoes. The child cannot speak and seems deformed.